HR8158-119

In Committee

Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act

119th Congress Introduced Mar 30, 2026

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators. The main policy domain is Labor, Civil Rights, Finance.

Who Benefits and How

workers, employers, and labor regulators may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, workers, employers, and labor regulators may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section H59D3C215062A4B7C9CBD1953713EF121: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act.
  • Section H3AE6569B23E8442DA6B0B6BF3FADD9D6: 2. Purposes The purpose of this Act is to allow individuals in the United States to receive paid leave time for absences resulting from a physical or mental...
  • Section HEF7EB21E333A4A619498D4CA0B7C9231: 3. Paid leave time An employer shall grant to each employee employed by the employer 96 hours of paid leave time on the employee's first workday of each...
  • Section H617D83E78F684393AD241D7426BC166A: 4. Notice requirement Each employer shall notify each employee and include in any employee handbook the information described in paragraphs (1) through (3)....
  • Section H508B7033E337432782E0CC8CF7AAE770: 5. Prohibited acts It shall be unlawful for any employer to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, any right provided...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators.

Key Policy Areas

Labor, Civil Rights, Finance

Primary Purpose

This bill, Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators.

Policy Domains

Labor Civil Rights Finance

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • workers, employers, and labor regulators
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workers, employers, and labor regulators:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • workers, employers, and labor regulators
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
federal implementing agencies:
workers, employers, and labor regulators:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Mar 30, 2026

Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in …

Mar 30, 2026

Introduced in House

Mar 30, 2026

Ms. Ansari (for herself, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Bell, Ms. Brownley, …

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Labor Civil Rights Finance
Actor Mappings
"secretary_of_labor"
→ Secretary of Labor

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

2 terms
"employer" §H399B2FFBD09F42C5A5C8200E52BF0D50

a person who is— a covered employer, as defined in subparagraph (B), who is not covered under subclause (V)

"employee" §HE5C77E2CA78740BCA65809B6B958DCF9

an employee described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 12(3)

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